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Hey, I'm new to GitHub! (programming.dev)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

The UI is fine.

It's just that Github is a code sharing and collaboration platform for developers, not a software package distribution platform for end users.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

While it may have begun that way (and may still be the overwhelming use case, idk the breakdown) devs are using it for FOSS releases, and that’s where the ‘less literate’ crowd enters. Sourceforge was very simple to use, and had a consistent layout. GitHub wasn’t meat to be a SF replacement, but here we are having this discussion